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Tamra Carhart

@carhartcreative.bsky.social
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Causing’ rambunction throughout the sphere. Decent human being. Creative generalist.

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/08/2026
Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.
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Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned
Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.
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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Why are the US media and Democratic politicians so averse to recognizing that SCOTUS judges can be impeached?
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Joe Kassel @joekassel.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I remember this. It was a scandal that rocked the national news!
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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
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Tamra Carhart @carhartcreative.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
If you haven't noticed the direct lines between AI Slop, colonialist genocide, late-stage capitalism, and environmental destruction, @mollycrabapple.bsky.social's article Vampire Slop is as good a starting point as any: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
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Vampire Slop | Critical AI | Duke University Press
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 06/05/2026
“We’re going to flood the zone. You’re going to see more ICE agents [than] you ever seen before.” The time to get whistles into the hands of your community is right now. We will send you whistles, for free, in quantities of 100-thousands. We do it every day. linktr.ee/3Dwhistles
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3D Printed Whistles | Linktree
We ship community protection whistles for free. Need some? Click the email link below & tell us how many you need (between 100 - 3000) & where to send them.
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Tamra Carhart @carhartcreative.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Loud-ass low-flying NYPD chopper flying south on Nostrand in PLG. Any ideas what’s going on?
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Tamra Carhart @carhartcreative.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Because Dolly
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Tamra Carhart @carhartcreative.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
If you don’t want more space trash, consider voicing your concerns here.
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simi @simifresh.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
the bushes were people 😂
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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Fuck AI, fuck ICE, and long live a free Puerto Rico.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
ICE are running around in the streets using facial recognition on random people and telling anyone filming them they're a domestic terrorist and Democrats solution is to equip every ICE agent with their very own body-worn surveillance camera
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Ray Pride @raypride.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
“Hundreds of immigrant mothers” in Texas concentration camp uprising
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows.

I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
These are tumultuous, pivotal times for US higher ed. I’ve thought repeatedly abt how much I hope that, this admissions season, candidates will choose schools that embody the values they want to define a better future world. The prestige factory institutions have exemplified moral bankruptcy.
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
I was wondering what Mamdani's first executive order would be, and I'm not disappointed by this. He has wiped off the books EVERY Eric Adams executive order issued on or after September 26, 2024, the day Adams was indicted on federal bribery charges.
Mamdani's Executive Order Number 1, as described in the post.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 29/11/2025
Home Depot wanted holiday cheer, got a whole-ass choir calling out their partnership with ICE instead…
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Tamra Carhart @carhartcreative.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Y’all I wish Zohran’s transition committee could just run the whole country. They keep adding brilliant mind after brilliant mind!
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Tamra Carhart @carhartcreative.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
The kids are alright
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Tamra Carhart @carhartcreative.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Yes, I get the irony of posting this here. arstechnica.com/science/2025...
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Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed
“The [structural] mechanism producing these problematic outcomes is really robust and hard to resolve.”…
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Tamra Carhart @carhartcreative.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
White people need to organize other white people to fight against anti-immigrant racism while following the lead of immigrants from the global majority. Go to @surj.bsky.social for more info. (These are my visual notes from last night’s webinar).
Visual notes of a SURJ webinar titled “Keep Every Neighbor Safe—white people organizing our own against anti-immigrant racism”
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achukilissa @achukilissa.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
My god. He’s gone after the Civil Rights Act!!!! www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.  A
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Tamra Carhart @carhartcreative.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
More of this, please!
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
RFK Jr. wants to eradicate autistic people and also has no idea what an autistic person is
"These are kids who will never pay taxes," Kennedy declared. "They'll never hold a
job. Theyl never play baseball. They'Il never write a poem. They'll never go out
" on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted. We have to recognize
doing this to our children.
we are
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
You are not worried enough about this
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Read Mahmoud Khalil's words at the end of today's hearing:
At the end of the hearing, Mahmoud Khalil asked to address the court, saying: “I would like to quote what you said last time that there's nothing that's more important to this court than due process rights and fundamental fairness. Clearly what we witnessed today, neither of these principles were present today or in this whole process. This is exactly why the Trump administration has sent me to this court, 1,000 miles away from my family. I just hope that the urgency that you deemed fit for me are afforded to the hundreds of others who have been here without hearing for months.”
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
BREAKING: An immigration judge just ruled that Mahmoud Khalil can be deported on the paltry evidence submitted by the government — a 2-page letter that *admits* Khalil's conduct was not unlawful, but says his beliefs undermine "core American interests" @delaneynolan.bsky.social
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BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil Can Be Deported, Immigration Judge Rules
The judge said the Trump administration’s evidence – a two-page letter from Secretary of State Marco Rubio – is sufficient to deport Khalil under an obscure legal provision.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The Smart People said "Abolish ICE" was too radical. Then ICE kidnapped students, sent innocent people to a mega prison, broke into a car to take a mom from her daughter, and tried questioning elementary kids while lying that they had parents permission. Ask yourself: which part is more "radical"?
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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 11/04/2025
COMPARE: the results of fighting back to the results of not fighting back
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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 10/04/2025
The Trump administration is now canceling people's Social Security Numbers, treating them as if they are legally dead. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...
Now, the administration is taking drastic steps to pressure some of those immigrants and others who had legal status to “self-deport” by effectively canceling the Social Security numbers they had lawfully obtained, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times and interviews with six people familiar with the plans.

The goal is to cut those people off from using crucial financial services like bank accounts and credit cards, along with their access to government benefits.

The effort hinges on a surprising new tactic: repurposing Social Security’s “death master file,” which for years has been used to track dead people who should no longer receive benefits, to include the names of living people who the government believes should be treated as if they are dead. As a result, they would be blacklisted from a coveted form of identity that allows them to make and spend money.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
If you ever have the opportunity to fly Avelo Airlines—don’t.
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Budget airline Avelo to fly deportation flights for ICE from Arizona
Budget carrier Avelo Airlines says it has signed an agreement to fly deportation flights from Arizona starting in May
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
“Mommy, no. Mommy.” Daughter captures the moment masked ICE agents smash the window of her mother's car in order to take her into custody. The government claims the 52-year old seamstress is an associate of the MS-13 gang. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...
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Rejected at her door, ICE nabs a Maryland woman in her car after smashing her window
Video shows a U.S. ICE agents breaking the window of a Maryland woman, Elsy Noemi Berrios, after failing to detain her at home.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/04/2025
This is a bad look. Bottom line.
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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
60 Minutes could find no criminal records for 75% of the Venezuelans the U.S. sent to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador. cbsn.ws/4clubLP
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Trump administration deports gay makeup artist to prison in El Salvador
A gay man with no known criminal record sought asylum in the U.S. He's since become one of 238 Venezuelan migrants deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration.
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L.A. Kauffman @lakauffman.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
For the data nerds out there, here's a chart of the largest coordinated protests in U.S. history from my 2018 book HOW TO READ A PROTEST Today's "Hands Off" protests, in 1000+ locations around the country, rank as one of the very largest decentralized days of protests EVER.
MARCHING EVERYWHERE: The Largest Coordinated Protests in US History. A chart with detailed information about 8 different massive days of coordinated protest in U.S. history. Apologies that there is not room here to copy all the data. But the upshot is that today's Hands Off mobilization stands out for the number of locations where protests took place. A map of the United States with a sea of red dots fully covering the blue background except in some of the most rural areas of the country. Beneath the map are the words "Map and List of Nationwide 'Hands Off' Protest Locations on April 5
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 05/04/2025
Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC
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Tamra Carhart @carhartcreative.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Lots of folks showing up to NYC Hands Off protest in the rain.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 02/04/2025
Two-thirds of both houses of Congress could undo this whenever they want by passing a bill over Trump's veto taking all power to set tariff rates away from him. Tariffs are set by law. The Constitution gives the president no power over tariffs--only our current laws do that.
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Tamra Carhart @carhartcreative.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Oh, how I wish this weren't satire! stealmytesla.com
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Shane Harris @shaneharris.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
The NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER added the EDITOR OF THE ATLANTIC to a PRINCIPALS COMMITTEE TEXT CHAIN set up for the DEFENSE SECRETARY about PLANNED MILITARY STRIKES. Here's a thread of involved parties talking about the need for secure communications (when Dems are involved):
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Roses are red Violets are blue
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UAW @uaw.org · 14/03/2025
In the latest assault on First Amendment rights, Columbia University has expelled and fired Grant Miner, President of UAW Local 2710, which represents thousands of Columbia student workers. The firing comes one day before contract negotiations were set to open with the University.
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Tamra Carhart @carhartcreative.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
What's the over/under on Schumer cancelling this book tour to avoid protesters?
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 12/03/2025
Come on down to the White House Tesla Auto Mall!
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Tamra Carhart @carhartcreative.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Now the CHIPS Act, which was intended to bring microchip manufacturing to the US, is in danger because of Cheeto Mussolini. qz.com/chips-act-fu...
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Chips Act funding could be at risk as Trump cuts federal workers
The terminations will reportedly not have a large impact on employees negotiating contracts with award recipients
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.
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Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
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